The composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857) was the earliest important musical figure of 19th-century musical nationalism in Russia--indeed, Russia's first musical personage of importance. He is known as the father of Russian music. Mikhail...

Music 'His music is minor, of course; but he is not'- thus Stravinsky characterised his compatriot and artistic ancestor Mikhail Glinka, whose bicentenary this year has passed virtually unnoticed: no Life for the Czar at Covent Garden (well suited to such a prevailingly...

BALTIMORE -- Violent crime, so commonplace on the streets of urban America, crossed a sacred line recently in a small convent in Baltimore. In its wake, a nun is dead, a city is shocked, and women religious working in big cities throughout the...